Vyatta as a BRAS

[rdobbins at arbor.net (Dobbins, Roland)]

On Jul 14, 2010, at 8:38 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:

> There's also the question of IP options (or extension headers). 8-)

I know that some modern hardware-based routers have the ability to either ignore options, or to drop option packets altogether.

I believe the same is now true of IPv6 extension-headere, or soon will be.  You're absolutely correct that this is a significant possible attack vector, causing the packets in question to be punted, if there isn't a mechanism available to ignore them or to drop said packets.

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